... We have before breathed out condemnation of the efforts of what Messrs Robertson and Thorling are pleased to term their dramatic company. But up till last Saturday evening they had confined themselves to melodrama and farce, and it was not until then that we had an opportunity of seeing them at the Royal Park Lecture Hall, Camden-town, in the legiti- mate. The sublime self-confidence that ...

... GERMAN REEDS ENTERTAINMENT. Mr Corney Grain has been taking holiday at Aix-les- Bains, but having, as is his wont, combined business with pleasure be has prepared for his numerous admirers a new sketch which he calls Taking the Waters. This was presented on Monday night to a crowded audience, whose enjoyment of it was made abundantly manifest by laughter and applause. When Mr Grain travels he ...

... BiR. McLEAN'S GALLERY. -0 'The chief attraction at the gallery of Mr. Thomas McLean, in the Haymarket, is Sir John Everett Uillais's Portia -a new picture of much brilliance, and beauty of expression. It is not, we believe, intended as a portrait of any distinguished impersonator of Shakespeare's heroine, neither may this rendering of Portia's face realise everyone's ideal conception of the ...

... THE PALL MALL LIST OF ENTERTAINMENTS. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. (AUGU5 rus UHARPis, Lessee and Manager.) THIS EVENING, at 7.30, A RU OF LUCK. By H evRY PETTITT aimd AUGUSTUS HARRIS. The greatest dramatic monetary success ever achieved in the ttheltre. The WORL D says :- A form of entertainment wvhicls embraces at once the best and most attrac. tive features of mracerms melodrama and ...

... A SCIENCE OF- . . . I ,.S. - 'A 'SCIENCE OF- GHO-STS-.*. Tins formidable array of ghost stories,. collected, arranged, and com- mented on by'Messrs. Gurney, Myers, and Podmore, somehow reminds oneof those several manuscript confessions upon which .Mr; Wemmick set particular value as being, to use his own words, a every one of 'em lies,: sir.'' It is useless to mince matters in dealing with ...

... ;ED1OS COMES TRIZtPZAZTT. See ! Demos comes triumphant in this fateful latter tine His voice is raised in protest 'gainst the old world wrong and crime. The outcast and the weary press around the champion's way, And BIlammon shrinks in terror from the direful reckon- img-day. Aye! Iwarrior-kings and bandit-lords oppressed the ?? of old, Yet ne'er a one has cursed it like the blighting rule of ...

... TIHE DRAMA IN PARIS. LA CIGhALE S3T LA FOUnd/U, Spectacular comic opera, in three acts and ten scenes, Wor ds by MIII. Chivot and Duru, music by M. Edmond Abollrall, brought out at the Gait6, October 30th, 1886, Lu Chevralier FralltZ ?? MA.GUIucuRe X iellit ?? ALEXA~NDIE )i/! do Faveesbert ?? A1. RAITER ?? ?? Al. E. P'ETTi i ?? Al. Scipio, Le Meitidant . ?? Al. GOBFREAU trusc ?? d Al. JxE ...

... A New Play, in a Prologue and Three Acts, by Horace Sedger, produced at the Prince of Wales's Theatre at a Matinde, on Wednesday, Nov. 3d, 1886. CHARACTERS IN THE PROLOGUE. William Shaw .. ?? Mr JAMSs FBRNANDEZ Allan ellie ?? I.. ?? Mr J. 0. TAYLOR Joe NuAent ?? Mr Louts CALVERT Arias Henriques ?? .. Mr ARTaca EBTcoUaT Jim ?? Mr NV. J. ELWORTHY Kate Eveline Ke.lie Mist ADA CAVENDISH First, ...

... THE DRAMIA IN AMERICA. (FRO36 OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NEW YORK, OCTOBER 29.-Madame Modjeska's genius is of the ripe and well-matured nature. Her acting is refined by long experience, and, though she has not now the attraction of youthful bloom and fresh- ness, her perforimance of Rosalind in As You Like It has a charm that, judged from an art standpoint, is of the highest nature. She began her ...

... I I.MPORTANT TO MUSIC HALL ARTISTS On Friday, in the Westminster County Court the case of Rosenburg v. Wake came before his honoer Judge Bayley. The plaintiff, Miss Julia Rosenburg a music hall artist, suedithe defendant, Mer Wake, of the Standard Music Hall, Pimlico, to recover 5, one week's salary and one week in lieu of notice. The plaintiff said that in July last she saw the defendant, and ...

... f USIC. ROYAL ALBERT HALL CHORAL SOCIETY. a d Tlis institution opened its sixteenth season, ahe in the great Kensington builiing, on Wednesday even- laU ing, with a grand performance of Elijah. Of so tra familiar a work, rendered under aspects similaz to those 9 of many previous occasions, but little need now be said. of The gigantic choir, which is so important a feature at on these ...

... (FROM OUR OWN cOBHESPONDNTb.) ABERDEEN. HER MAJTY'S -TETR.Lesee, r W. MFarland General Manager, Mr Reginald Hare.-The lece bas been creating great amusement this week. e piete ha een accepted as a wild bit of buffoonery elongated it tree s and as such it is played with great spirit by Mr Vawtry5 company. The leadingpartsare ed ?? Ae Verity Jenny Dawson, GlyoneHelenViearY e H. temble, W. S. ...